The US government is very good at destroying things on the pretense that its actions are required to save the things destroyed.
“It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,” an unnamed major was famously quoted as saying in 1968 in reference to the indiscriminate bombing of the provincial capital of Bến Tre in southern Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
The government destroys the economy in the name of saving it and harms consumers in the name of protecting them, too.
The New York Times, which is ever in favor of massive government interventionism into the economy, provides an example of the government harming consumers with ostensibly benevolent intent by reporting that Spirit Airlines has filed for bankruptcy.
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